You’re invited to come to “Arts & Nature, Calumet Region & Nationwide,” an event at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore that celebrates IDNL’s 50th Anniversary and the National Park Service’s Centennial. This event includes:

The arts making activities include leaf poem collage-making, mixed media artworks, and other activities. The poetry readings and performances will be by youth and adults, including high school and college students from the Calumet Region (including Gary and Chicago).

You're invited to join us during our last meetup for the summer term, when we explore erasures and vispo inspired by Chicago. We'll be using found texts and images, making creative connections between objective and subjective responses to aspects of Chicago's identity. Bring your musical instruments, art supplies and notebooks. These workshops are interactive and multidisciplinary. We have supplies and equipment on hand that workshop participants can use -- including pencils, pens, paint, a piano, other musical instruments.

Location:Mozart Park is in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. It's on the north side of Armitage Ave. -- several blocks east of Pulaski Rd., just south of Dickens and Shakespeare Streets. Our workshop series happens in the room to the left of fieldhouse lobby; some workshop sessions may happen outside in the park, weather permitting.

"Join us during our next meetup, when we're presenting and facilitating an open discussion about The Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists! Join us for a vibrant conversation covering amazing artists such as Jim Nutt, Suellen Rocca, Ed Paschke, Gladys Nilsson, Karl Wirsum, Christina Ramberg, Roger Brown, Sarah Canright, Art Green, James Falconer, Philip Hanson and Ed Flood.

We’ll get into 60s and 70s culture and local influencers as well – Chicago Blues, neighborhoods, comic books, and post-war culture. We’ll be discussing Howlin’ Wolf, Maxwell Street, politics and diversity. It’s going to get wild, weird, and very Chicago.

Bring your musical instruments, art supplies and notebooks. These workshops are interactive and multidisciplinary. We have supplies and equipment on hand that workshop participants can use -- including pencils, pens, paint, a piano, other musical instruments.

Location:Mozart Park is in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. It's on the north side of Armitage Ave. -- several blocks east of Pulaski Rd., just south of Dickens and Shakespeare Streets. Our workshop series happens in the room to the left of fieldhouse lobby; some workshop sessions may happen outside in the park, weather permitting.

Our next meetup focuses on concert poster designs and other innovative design work by artists whose work has a distinct Chicago feel -- such as those by Dan Grzeca, Jay Ryan and Steve Krakow aka Plastic Crimewave. We also delve into graphic design images that visually represent aspects of Chicago's identity, and we'll talk about connections between amazing concert poster designs and the musicians, bands and concerts they are intended to promote. How can a striking poster image promote a concert while also stand alone as a beautiful art work? We'll talk about this too.

Also art supplies will be provided, so participants can play around with some design elements that could conceivably be worked into concert posters.

Bring your musical instruments, art supplies and notebooks. These workshops are interactive and multidisciplinary. We have supplies and equipment on hand that workshop participants can use -- including pencils, pens, paint, a piano, other musical instruments.

Location: Mozart Park is in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. It's on the north side of Armitage Ave. -- several blocks east of Pulaski Rd., just south of Dickens and Shakespeare Streets. We meet in the multipurpose room to the left of fieldhouse lobby; some workshop sessions may happen outside in the park, weather permitting.

Transportation & parking: Mozart Park can be reached by public transportation (such as the #73 Armitage Ave. bus, and not far from the Logan Square and Western Ave. stations on the CTA's blue line. Mozart Park has a parking lot on Armitage, east of Avers.

Registering for Borderbend's arts workshop series at Mozart Park: Click here or here to register for the summer term at the Chicago Park District website.

Additional info: You can contact us by clicking here (if you have questions about this workshop or to RSVP). Click here to find out more about Borderbend's arts workshop series at Mozart Park.

You're invited to come to our next meetup, which is all about World Listening Day. We'll:

Talk about and listen to field recordings created in Chicago and other places;

Explore the concept of "sounds lost & found," which is the theme of #WLD2016;

Go on a soundwalk through the park; and

Create soundwalk poetry inspired by World Listening Day.

It's fitting that we're meeting at Mozart Park, with its very sound-centric name.

Bring your musical instruments, art supplies and notebooks. These workshops are interactive and multidisciplinary. We have supplies and equipment on hand that workshop participants can use -- including pencils, pens, paint, a piano, other musical instruments.

Location: Mozart Park is in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. It's on the north side of Armitage Ave. -- several blocks east of Pulaski Rd., just south of Dickens and Shakespeare Streets. We meet in the multipurpose room to the left of fieldhouse lobby; some workshop sessions may happen outside in the park, weather permitting.

Transportation & parking: Mozart Park can be reached by public transportation (such as the #73 Armitage Ave. bus, and not far from the Logan Square and Western Ave. stations on the CTA's blue line. Mozart Park has a parking lot on Armitage, east of Avers.

Registering for Borderbend's arts workshop series at Mozart Park: Click here or here to register for the summer term at the Chicago Park District website.

Additional info: You can contact us by clicking here (if you have questions about this workshop or to RSVP). Click here to find out more about Borderbend's arts workshop series at Mozart Park.

You're invited to come to our next meetup, when we focus on Dada and Surrealism, with connections to Chicago. Dada, an art movement that started in Europe more than a century ago, has influenced artists around the world including those connected to Chicago. Methods and approaches associated with Dada -- such as arresting and provocative uses of collage, edgy graphics, rebellious and prankster attitudes toward audiences, and skepticism toward industry and politics -- have repercussions that can be felt today. Surrealism, founded in Paris nearly a hundred years ago, has been a liberating and catalyzing force for artists working in a range of art media in Chicago and beyond.

Bring your musical instruments, art supplies and notebooks. These workshops are interactive and multidisciplinary. We have supplies and equipment on hand that workshop participants can use -- including pencils, pens, paint, a piano, other musical instruments.

Location: Mozart Park is in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. It's on the north side of Armitage Ave. -- several blocks east of Pulaski Rd., just south of Dickens and Shakespeare Streets. We meet in the multipurpose room to the left of fieldhouse lobby; some workshop sessions may happen outside in the park, weather permitting.

Transportation & parking: Mozart Park can be reached by public transportation (such as the #73 Armitage Ave. bus, and not far from the Logan Square and Western Ave. stations on the CTA's blue line. Mozart Park has a parking lot on Armitage, east of Avers.

Registering for Borderbend's arts workshop series at Mozart Park: Click here or here to register for the summer term at the Chicago Park District website.

Additional info: You can contact us by clicking here (if you have questions about this workshop or to RSVP). Click here to find out more about Borderbend's arts workshop series at Mozart Park

Interspersed among these pieces will be field recordings of natural ecosystems, ecotone environs and urban soundscapes—in commemoration of World Listening Day. The field recordings will include sounds of machines, plants, and animals/insects, as well as natural processes.

The title of this event—“macrocosmic musical instrument”—is a phrase by Bernie Krause, describing the Earth, from Krause’s The Great Animal Orchestra.

Knitting (2012)
“I composed the knitting pieces on the opposite end of our imitation Shaker dining room table from my partner, Jen, who is often knitting. Watching her work on projects inspired me to consider what the components of knitting are, and try to use some of these components in a series of pieces.
“I attempted to reflect the contemplative and repetitive aspects of knitting in the playing of this piece on the piano. Repetition is prevalent, and many of the themes feel pleasant to play, at least for this pianist. Meditation, repetition, and breath, are three of my favorite things. The ensemble is instructed to augment this using various improvisational means.” – EGR

Snail Cantos (2008-2014)
“I composed my first graphic score that I made in collaboration with snails to try to include an animal's perspective in a piece. This led to a series of graphic scores, and later to the addition of more traditionally notated material and instructions.
“Snails glide across substances without touching them, and they determine whether they touch what they move across. They secrete a layer of mucous, and then move across this, which allows them to move without contacting the surface which they are crossing. Making scores with these mucous trails, I found myself thinking that the score itself was a way of not touching the music. The score can never touch the music, and it can be a barrier between the musician and the music. I wanted to make something which would allow the musicians to touch the composition directly, if they wanted to.” – EGR